Looking for Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) membership support? What about pre-sales assistance to deliver your first cloud deal? Maybe you’re looking to connect with Microsoft? When speaking to Partners, I come across these enquiries with alarming regularity. To help you find the assistance you need, the team at Microsoft Australia have created the Partner 101…

I wanted to share with you my top tips for Partners engaging with Microsoft Australia; The sheer size of Microsoft and the range of our product offerings means that sometimes it can be frustrating trying to work out how you get connected directly to the Microsoft team. The good news is that we’re here to help…

I am excited to share with you that the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference has a new name: Microsoft Inspire. It’s the great event you our partners know and love, with a brand-new name. Want to know more? Read Gavriella Schuster on blog post on MPN https://blogs.partner.microsoft.com/mpn/introducing-microsoft-inspire-a-new-name-for-our-worldwide-partner-conference/ #MSInspire

Here’s a great offer for Australian Microsoft Partner Network members with Azure credit benefits (Tip: Action Pack and Competency Partners). Take advantage of (Cloud Platform Partner) SixPivot’s Cloud Ctrl to maximise the value of your Azure credit and eliminate bill shock risk. Get in early and receive Managed Service Provider practice development guidance from SixPivot’s CTO. Read on…

Executive teams are challenging to recruit, lead and manage. You want excellent leaders who are also team players. Figureheads who have the common touch. Individuals bold enough to take risks, yet sensible enough not to put their foot in it with the press. When I’m working with executive teams to overcome business challenges, what often…

In the technology community we deal in IP every day, and lawyers become very wealthy off the back of ongoing patent wars, but there’s another type of IP that would help us all to be more successful if we understood it better: the unique way in which we each do business. It’s one of the…

I hope Satya Nadella’s recent visit to Australia has you excited about what the future holds for our industry and what we – with a combination of Microsoft’s platforms and your solutions – can collectively achieve. If you’ve been tracking the extensive press coverage of Satya’s visit, you’ll know he’s very focused on digital transformation…

Welcome to the Australia Hot Sheet Training Schedule, for November / December. This is a comprehensive schedule of Australia partner training, webcasts, community calls, and office hours. We will update this post frequently, as we learn about new offerings, so you can plan. We hope this will help you and your team skill up on…

How to build a sales force with an Ironman attitude An Ironman event comprises of a 3.8 km swim, 180 km on a bike and a 42.2km run. Written like that, it’s a straightforward statement, but to complete one requires commitment and the right attitude. What’s described above is the same as what goes on in…

Overview: Microsoft R Server (MRS) for Analysts is designed to help analyst’s familiar with other environments migrate their knowledge of data preparation and analysis to Microsoft R Server. This 3-day training course takes a use-case-based approach to walk through the knowledge discovery and data mining process using MRS in a local compute context (on a…